That's how Eddie Condon described the sound emanating from the horn of Bix Beiderbecke, a jazz cornet legend and Prohibition-era alcoholic who died of pneumonia in this Sunnyside apartment building at the age of 28, leaving behind a truncated but "scintillating oeuvre". Check out this documentary to hear him play and learn more about his life.
Day 266
Like a girl saying yes
September 21st, 2012
